[Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

[smillie's garden]

The opening track from the wonderful new Destroyer album. Usually Dan Bejar is very verbose, and rather sarcastic, but this song is pretty taciturn for him, and the instrumentation is quite blissed out on the extended outro.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

This song will forever remind me of the earliest days of the Amex, they used to play it all the time. RIP Tom Parker

 

[Happy Exile]

This band never made it beyond playing big pubs but I saw them live a handful of times and they were always hugely impressive and seemed destined for more - some really good songs, incredible musicianship and a really tight, big sound. This is a live recording of a band without a big setup (I think it's at an event for promoting local bands in Leeds) and it sounds epic. The first time I heard the transition from their own song into Kate Bush like they do in this video it blew me away. Still listening to some of their stuff today.

 

[studio150]

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[carlzeiss]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pk3A_QSINI

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Sometimes I just like a funk groove for want of a better description

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Pioneering prog rock.

Edit, same band but I love this more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq_ihVwI23M

 

[BN9 BHA]

https://youtu.be/Wu_Xsa43jBw

 

[Icy Gull]

Just sublime to these ears

https://youtu.be/PK2SVE7dTu0

 

[jakarta]

The Floored Genius himself...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09LrFyP4lE

 

[pearl]

https://youtu.be/TgWXsQPB9r4

 

[Boys 9d]

It's only taken me 50 years to get around to listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X15PsqN0DHc

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The beautiful original wistful shoegaze version of misty circles by the once beautiful Pete Burns. The 'disco'version that came out some years later is basically the second half of this version. I was familiar with the original and wondered who was doing a cover version when I first heard it. Love them both but the shoegaze version is quite something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI2-ro9P5z0

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It's only taken me 50 years to get around to listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X15PsqN0DHc

Popped up on my iPod a few weeks ago

I have the original vinyl with the 'newspaper' sleve. New sand, we at her.

 

[Weststander]

 

[Trevor]

 

[lasvegan]

https://youtu.be/9TlBTPITo1I

 

[Icy Gull]

Syd was a genius, I am still in awe of his music 50+ years on

https://youtu.be/ZhjGTUS_Gj0

 

[Super Steve Earle]

It's only taken me 50 years to get around to listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X15PsqN0DHc

Thank goodness you got there in the end. I envy you that recent pleasure of hearing it for the first time. It was terrific played live by the original band too.

But I won't waste a post with just words. This thread is for music. Here's a new song from from a singer who's voice has aged rather better than Ian Anderson's. Sounds like his new album is a cracker and this song by Rodney Crowell & Chris Stapleton is superb. Lovely singing, lovely song and beautifully played. Feels like a country classic already and can't wait for the album.